For those interested ... note that the DoW database only tells from WHERE you are playing, not your nationality.

So, here are the countries from where the high ranking officers are playing (probably also the home countries for most of them). I will list the countries with the most players first and sort countries with the same number of players after the date on which the first of them reached his rank.

We could also go back to 1940 which would make Flemings and Walloons, along with others, citizens of the german Third Reich. Laughing

Wrong. Only Eupen-Malmedy was (re)annexed to Germany on 18 May 1940. The rest of Belgium remained an occupied, but formally sovereign country under the rule of King Leopold (who, just as the Danish king, did not go into exile).

The Danish players had to replace Yougoslavia the team that has qualified but was not allowed to play because of the war there.

Story goes that they had to come back from summer holiday (not true).

After a loss to Sweden and a draw to England the Danish beat France , to kick The Netherlands in the semi finals. Rijckaard scored 2-2 in the 86th minute, but after the extention, when penalties had to be taken, Van Basten missed against the excellent keeper Schmeichel(5-4) and the Danish went through to beat Germany 2-0 in the finals.

EDIT : (quoted from IDMB) "The comic book artists, Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson, drew heavily from Gwynplaine [my avatar, character played by Conrad Veidt] when they created Batman's arch-enemy in the late thirties."

That is, if you guys don't start quarreling and demand that you should be separated into Flemings and Walloons.

Untill 1830 it was The Netherlands all the way, with Luxemburg.

That depends: if we don't seperate but become a confederal state, like the USA, you can keep combining our results. Otherwise you also have to divide the numbers of the United States of America per state, but they won't like that.

But let's stop talking politics on this forum. RB said we have to have fun.